Leftover Turkey Pizza

Leftover Turkey Pizza is a delicious alternative to enjoying leftovers from a holiday meal. This pizza has it all! Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and cranberries. All of those holiday favorites take on a whole new flavor when combined with a white garlic pizza sauce along with a few dollops of ricotta and parmesan cheese.

🦃 Why You'll Love Leftover Turkey Pizza

It's a great way to use up leftovers from your holiday meal. So is Rotisserie Chicken and Stuffing Casserole, which is also a great way to enjoy leftover turkey.

After you make this for your family, you might wonder where this flavor combination has been all these years!

It's easy to make, all you need is a pizza crust and a tasty sauce and you're set.

🥘 Leftovers and Ingredients Needed

Mix and match the ingredients. You can include some or all of the ingredients listed below on the pizza for great results

• cooked turkey
• stuffing
• sweet potatoes
• cranberry sauce
• ricotta cheese
• parmesan cheese
• white pizza sauce
• pizza crust

Same for the additional ingredients: stuffing, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.

This is a delicious recipe to serve when you are craving the flavors of fall and holidays, Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce is also good for that! It's classic comfort food.

🍕A New Twist on Turkey

This recipe is a unique way to use up turkey leftovers, the familiar taste of turkey and sweet potatoes along with the stuffing and cranberry sauce get a whole new twist when placed alongside dollops of ricotta cheese.

I think my favorite part of this recipe is how the ingredients blend with the cheesy, garlicky white pizza sauce.

🍗 Substitutions and Variations

You could even make this leftover pizza without turkey, if you have holiday leftovers like stuffing and sweet potatoes but no turkey just use a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store.

Pro Tip: Have all the ingredients on hand but no pizza crust? Use toast or English muffins and make individual mini "pizzas."

This recipe uses some, but not all of your holiday leftovers so there will be plenty left for sandwiches, turkey pot pie or soup.

I haven't included mashed potatoes, even though they are a part of most holiday leftovers - because they don't keep their shape very well on a pizza crust.

🍽 White Sauce, Not Red Sauce

I love red sauce on pizza, but turkey, like chicken, really tastes best on a white sauce.

Once you've tasted turkey and these trimmings on a white pizza sauce you'll know why this is among the best ways to serve leftover turkey.

Making your white sauce from scratch is easy and fast. I think you'll love my white pizza sauce recipe, you control the amount of garlic - my family LOVES lots of garlic - and oregano and it's ready in under 15 minutes. Give it a try.

💭 Recipe FAQs

🍲 More Poultry Recipes

Here are a few more recipes that use savory poultry. Enjoy!

If you tried Leftover Turkey Pizza or any other recipe on my website, please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how it goes in the 📝 comments below.

Recipe

Leftover Turkey Pizza

Our holiday leftovers take on a whole new flavor when combined with a garlic-y white pizza sauce and baked together on a homemade pizza crust.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 10

Calories: 164kcal

Author: Melinda O'Malley Keckler

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1 cup turkey - cooked and diced
• ▢ 1 cup stuffing - cooked
• ▢ 1 cup sweet potato - cooked and chopped into bite-sized chunks
• ▢ ½ cup ricotta cheese
• ▢ 1 cup parmesan cheese
• ▢ 1 cup cranberry sauce
• ▢ 1 pizza crust - your favorite
• ▢ 1 cup white pizza sauce - your favorite

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 425°
• Top your favorite pizza crust with white pizza sauce. Spread diced turkey, stuffing and sweet potatoes evenly across the sauce. Using a teaspoon, make small dollops of ricotta cheese across the pizza. Sprinkle with 1 cup of parmesan cheese.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes or until pizza crust is baked and starting to brown on the edges.
• Place teaspoons full of cranberry sauce across the top of the pizza as soon as the pizza comes out of the oven. The piping hot pizza will warm the cranberry sauce.

Notes

Any type of pizza crust works well, but this recipe works best with a dough that isn't especially thick or chewy. Use fresh store-bought pizza dough or a pre-baked crust and you'll still get great results.

The nutritional information here is calculated only using the pizza toppings in this recipe and does not include the details about the pizza crust or pizza sauce. 

Calories: 164kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 8gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 293mgPotassium: 111mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 2100IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 156mgIron: 1mg

Please note, the nutrition details are estimated using a food database, so they’re just a rough estimate not an exact science.

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